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CORPORATIONS CALL IT "top-down" decision-making. It's fast, it's efficient and it gets the job done. At Harvard, people like President Derek C. Bok and Vice President Daniel Steiner '54 are in the driver's seat. They know the most and are therefore most qualified to make the important decisions, right...
...real issue is the way the University has gone about setting up this program, and their response to our allegations of serious structural flaws in the program. Specifically, the program was conceived and planned for six months without input of Black South Africans. That Steiner now claims he can smooth over any problems during his upcoming visit to South Africa is to show a basic lack of respect and contempt for the people he is supposedly trying to help...
...Steiner is truly interested in the views of Black South Africans, he must pay them the respect of suspending the program pending their consultation. To simply ask their opinion of a program that is already committed to specific activities is to deny them any substantive input into the meaningful issues at hand...
Finally, given the serious shortcomings brought up in the SASC report, why has Steiner yet to renounce any of the programs on the OCS list? The mere fact that Steiner is still entertaining the idea of internships with Namibian organizations that are illegally sponsored by the South African Government seriously questions his commitment to use the internship for its stated goals...
...original intent of the list in OCS is no longer the issue. The fact remains that as of now Harvard has received written requests for interns from only nine organizations (the nine which appear on the list!). It is now time for Steiner and his committee to dissociate themselves from all of the organizations on the list and to suspend the program pending the consultation fo Black South Africans. Damon Silvers...